State-owned broadcaster TV2 has found a loophole in the national gaming laws that allows it to provide cash payouts to winners of its online computer games. Although the courts have upheld national gaming agency Danske Spil's monopoly on the 11 billion kroner gambling industry, TV2's games are classified as games of skill -- based on skill rather than on chance -- and are not covered by national gaming laws.

Firms bending new laws to raise the number of lucrative jackpot slot machines they operate face a clampdown by the Gambling Commission. The regulator's actions come as the industry awaits a promised package of measures from the government to address the financial crisis facing the bingo industry and seaside amusement arcades - both of which were forced to remove thousands of jackpot machines last autumn.